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North Carolina folklorist Nancy Kalow taught documentary video production at Duke
University's Center for Documentary Studies. She received an A.B. degree from Harvard
University in 1982 and an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 1999. She directed the 1988 documentary
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco and was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, 2003-2004, at the University of North Carolina's
University Center for International Studies in Chapel Hill. The collection comprises 29 videotapes of various aspects of North Carolina folklife
recorded by Kalow between 1987 and 1991. There are videotapes of traditional North
Carolina fiddlers that Kalow made in association with traditional music legend and
founder of
The Old-Time Herald Alice Gerrard as part of a project for the North Carolina Arts Council. These fiddlers
include Thomas Burt, Calvin Cole, Bert Dickens, and Enoch Rutherford. There is a series
of interviews with and demonstrations of technique by musician Walter Raleigh Babson,
which are moderated by traditional music collector, educator, and practitioner Andy
Cahan. There are tapes of performances by African American string band musicians Joe
and Odell Thompson, Piedmont blues musicians George Higgs and James Bud Powell, and
traditional musician John Rector. There are also tapes documenting a 1987 performance
at the UNC Forest Theatre by storyteller Steven Henegar and Uncle Eli's Quilting Bee,
an annual event that has taken place in Alamance County since 1931 and which Kalow
recorded on 7 April 1988 at Eli Whitney Recreation Center.

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[Identification of item], in the Nancy Kalow Collection #20113, Southern Folklife
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Nancy Kalow in November 1992 (Acc. 102577).

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North Carolina folklorist Nancy Kalow taught documentary video production at Duke
University's Center for Documentary Studies. She received an A.B. degree from Harvard
University in 1982 and an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 1999. She directed the 1988 documentary
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco and was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, 2003-2004, at the University of North Carolina's
University Center for International Studies in Chapel Hill.

The collection comprises 29 videotapes of various aspects of North Carolina folklife
recorded by Kalow between 1987 and 1991. There are videotapes of traditional North
Carolina fiddlers that Kalow made in association with traditional music legend and
founder of The Old-Time Herald Alice Gerrard as part of a project for the North Carolina
Arts Council. These fiddlers include Thomas Burt, Calvin Cole, Bert Dickens, and Enoch
Rutherford. There is a series of interviews with and demonstrations of technique by
musician Walter Raleigh Babson, which are moderated by traditional music collector,
educator, and practitioner Andy Cahan. There are tapes of performances by African
American string band musicians Joe and Odell Thompson, Piedmont blues musicians George
Higgs and James Bud Powell, and traditional musician John Rector. There are also tapes
documenting a 1987 performance at the UNC Forest Theatre by storyteller Steven Henegar
and Uncle Eli's Quilting Bee, an annual event that has taken place in Alamance County
since 1931 and which Kalow recorded on 7 April 1988 at Eli Whitney Recreation Center.

Two distinct recordings on one tape. The first half features Calvin Cole and Wayne
Lowe performing traditional tunes at Cole's home in Fancy Gap, Va. The second half
features Bert (Bertie) Dickens recorded at Marvin and Bert Dickens home in Ennice,
N.C. Her performance is continued on VT-20113/4-5.

This videotape of a concert at Gerrard Hall, on the campus of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, features traditional string band musicians Joe Thompson on
fiddle and Odell Thompson on banjo.

This videotape of a concert at Gerrard Hall, on the campus of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, features traditional string band musicians Joe Thompson on
fiddle and Odell Thompson on banjo.

Two Primitive Baptist Church services are dubbed on this tape. The first, from June
26, 1988 was recorded at Jenkin's Chapel. The second, from July 10, 1988 was videotaped
at Seven Springs. Field notes for this recording reside in Folder 991 within the Southern
Folklife Collection Field Notes Collection (#30025).

Two Primitive Baptist Church services are dubbed on this tape. The first, from July
17, 1988 was recorded at Jones Chapel. The second, from January 31, 1988 was videotaped
at Olive Branch. Field notes for this recording reside in Folder 991 within the Southern
Folklife Collection Field Notes Collection (#30025).

This is a tape of the proceedings of the fifty-fourth annual session of the Cooper's
Grove Primitive Baptist Association. The conference was held on August 15 and 16,
1987. Minutes of the session, in booklet form, are filed separately in Folder 991
within the Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes Collection (#30025).

This 30 minute documentary shows the life and expressive culture of young runaways
who survive on the streets. A group of 100 teenagers form an alternative family in
an abandoned high school in San Francisco.